British Papal Visit Update
Posted by Edward Pentin
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:50 AM
Westminster Cathedral (wikipedia)
An official announcement of a historic papal state visit to Britain is now not expected until toward the end of this year, the Register has learned.
News that Pope Benedict XVI would travel to the British Isles, probably in September 2010, was leaked to the media last week, but contrary to speculation, there is no likelihood of a visit to Northern Ireland this time around. That is more likely... READ MORE
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Pope to Visit Britain in 2010?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:30 AM
The Times of London reported today:
Pope Benedict XVI is to visit Britain next year in the first ever official visit by a pontiff.
The Holy See will announce soon the first papal visit to Britain since Pope John Paul II made a pastoral visit in 1982.
The historic event will overshadow even the triumphant visit of Pope John Paul II, which almost did not take place at all because of the... READ MORE
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Britain’s Government-Funded ‘Death Panels’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:00 PM
Critics have charged that Sarah Palin and others were wildly over the top, in warning that President Barack Obama’s health-care reform initiative could open the door to federally funded “death panels” that would order the euthanizing of seriously ill patients.
Given what’s going on right now under Britain’s socialized National Health Service, the claims of Palin et al might not have... READ MORE
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Saint Chesterton?
Posted by Tim Drake
Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:28 PM
Could G.K. Chesterton be declared a Saint?
If a group of Chesterton scholars meeting at Oxford next month has their way, the British journalist and convert G.K. Chesterton’s Cause could be taken up by the Church.
According to a story that originally appeared in the UK Catholic Herald, Chesterton biographer William Oddie will bring the subject up at the conference on July 4th.
“It is becoming clear that serious attention needs to be... READ MORE
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England's New Primate
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, April 03, 2009 8:25 AM
Archbishop Vincent Nichols
Archbishop Vincent Nichols has been appointed as the new Archbishop of Westminster by Pope Benedict XVI.
Archbishop Nichols, who was serving as archbishop of Birmingham until his new appointment today, will succeed retiring Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.
In his capacity as Archbishop of Westminster, Archbishop Nichols also will succeed Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor as the primate of England... READ MORE
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A Catholic British Royal Family?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, March 27, 2009 2:17 PM
The U.K.’s Guardian newspaper has reported that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is committed to ending the country’s current royal ban on Catholics.
Brown said today he will address the “anomaly,” first enshrined in the 1701 Act of Settlement, that legally banned Catholics from marrying into the British royal family.
According to the Guardian, Brown has opened discussions about... READ MORE
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Cardinal in House of Lords?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, February 27, 2009 2:31 PM
U.K. House of Lords. (Wikipedia)
The Times of London reported today that Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster will be offered a seat in Britain’s House of Lords.
If that should come to pass, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor would become the first Catholic bishop to sit in Britain’s upper house of Parliament since the Reformation.
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, who at the age of 76 is more than a year beyond the... READ MORE
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